I grew up in a liberal bubble. I was not taught contempt for the poor or uneducated. I was taught contempt for racism.
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I was taught to want to help all people--& to judge no one based on their circumstances. I was also taught that racism was evil.
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I was taught to always try to experience the lives of others. That my empathy would be imperfect-But that it was necessary to try.
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As a progressive, I believe in investing in all people & communities. And guess what? I can simultaneously call a racist "deplorable."
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People need to stop conflating judgment based in observable behaviors w/ judgment based in discrimination or bigotry.
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You realize that "white working class" is identity politics, right?
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Also, I'm a progressive in a red state and I can tell you there is JUST as much condescension going the other way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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People accuse me of living in an "elite liberal bubble" and I'm like, I'm literally your next door neighbor and the only Dem on the block
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Or they tell me I'll change my mind when I make more money, ie I'm only a Dem because I don't have to pay enough taxes yet

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Have there been any thinkpieces about this??? All I see is pieces painting all Dems as elites and lecturing us about working class whites
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All I hear about on the news is working class whites, but we're the ones playing identity politics
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And for the record, my husband and I are both white, we live in a red state, he comes from a small conservative town...
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I go to church every Sunday in a majority Republican congregation and I'm so freaking sick of being told I don't "understand" them enough
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FFS. Stop with this shit. We are allowed to be fed up with racism.
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In defense of Hillary, which I never do, she was referring to Trump's fuckinnazi supporters, not middle America. Lying WSJ strikes again.
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Thank you.
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This is a bad take.
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It's more contempt for those who seek to turn America into a retrograde plutocracy ... and those who unwittingly abet them.
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